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Exploded Bunbury

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Library scientist. Hobbies: Wikidata and portraits.

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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you’ve lost David Brooks, you know you are doing the right thing.
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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don’t like this sequel to The Real World San Francisco.
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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cornell Tries Going By Different Name — theonion.com/cornell-trie...
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Cornell Tries Going By Different Name
ITHACA, NY—In an aggressive attempt to distance itself from an alleged sexual assault at one of its fraternity houses, Cornell University hastily announced Thursday that it was now going by a differen...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 02/04/2026
“It is a striking indication of the social and cultural decay inherent in the final stages of capitalism, when elaborate scientific methods begin to be used, no longer to promote, but to eliminate intelligence from among the workers, because intelligent workers become Communists.” R. P. Dutt (1934)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s still funny to me that the US had a presidential election that was basically like “Should the US kill itself” and “Yes” won (2024)
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Guy who is obviously on drugs: I built a supercomputer that is God and now I need subsidies
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Speak at Your Own Risk
Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment
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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nothing stopping it besides republicans.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wonder if this is legal to teach in Texas www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
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Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It might seem that the existence of a Fetterman is an indictment of the senatorial system’s design but in fairness the Founders would have expected somebody who behaved like this to get killed in a duel by an irate constituent.
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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Burns blames Homer on President Ford’s job program.
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sandy Berman said it better. "DON'T DO IT. You are not Potus pawns nor MAGA minions."
photo of an article from the Star Tribune headlined "Trump: Lake Ontario now Lake America in the U.S."

underneath is a typewritten letter that reads:

8-28-26
Training, Policy, & Cooperatie Programs Division
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540

Dear Colleagues, 

DON'T DO IT. You are _not_ Potus pawns nor MAGA minions. 

With warmest regards, 

Sanford Berman

4400 Morninside Road
Edina, MN 55416

952 925-5738
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Republicans have close ties with a thousand far-right media extremists" is a story the elite media got bored with a long time ago. Now they've found one left-wing media extremist they can badger every Democrat about, and they are PSYCHED.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
thomas jefferson was a slaver and a rapist, but you don't have to idolize him or even like him. nothing is stopping you from seeing Frederick Douglass or Ida B. Wells-Barnett as the American tradition you belong to.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026
‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article theonion.com/wall-street-journal-de…
‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Real “mask off” moment to casually assert that half of the country believes a thing (the obvious implication, then, being that half of the country does not) and therefore it is the new reality we all must inhabit.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
To the American professors more concerned with the academic freedom of a professor in Belgium to engage in "race science" than the federal government punishing one because they engaged in actual science at one of the US's oldest and most important higher education institutions, we see you.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m not sure how to convey this succinctly to legacy media who continues to go to Manchin for his opinion. But let me try: No one, and I mean no one, gives a fuck what Joe Manchin thinks about anything.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Debbie Dingell, from the logo
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kenny mellman @kennymellman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
These people are wildly racist, smug, and gleeful about their destructive actions.
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Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die
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Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dear libertarians, I hate to tell you this (I don’t), but you are children. And the barrage of perfectly preventable diseases becoming newly prevalent again and having to check the daily food recalls should be all the proof you need.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you’re a white man in academia and you think your problems come from EDI/DEI/woke, you’re failing on observational skills, research methods and critical thinking.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
one thing you can't stop seeing once you notice it is how the pundits the mainstream media platform actively punish any dem who lands on effective messaging
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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Imagine if you combined the worst things about all of the Kennedy family into one festering boil of a human being.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/08/2026
deeply funny when anyone in the party of Trump pretends to be offended by the concept of misogyny
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What if we kissed at the—
90s news Screen grab states: liberty university gay sex command center
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Their best defense against the growing challenge from the left would be simply to meet the moment and act more aggressively against Trump. If they just did that, half the energy behind DSA challenges would dissipate and they'd be safe. But no, they'd rather punch left in a panic.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A movie poster edit spoofing the film Left Behind. At the top, text reads "Based on a true story!" above the main title "LEFT BEHIND THE MOVIE" set against a backdrop of planes on a dark, apocalyptic runway. In the lower right foreground, Stephen Miller is edited in, looking severe. Text along the bottom lists cast names: "Stephen Miller," "Karoline Leavitt," and "Marco Rubio."
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
Just 6 years ago there was a broad consensus on ending cash bail and not treating anyone taken by the police as convicted prisoners serving sentences from a judge. But something something woke DEI and now we’re seeing people argue people in jail should be tortured with shock gloves.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026
Obama was designed in a lab to be the most Mr Rogers coded drone striking highly effective agent of western imperialism in US history and the media called him a foreign Muslim 24/7 for 8 years & transformed every other white person into a KKK werewolf
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
There should be a law against anointing someone as a public intellectual when their only job ever has been "public intellectual"
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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is exactly what they did with W. “Bush kept us safe” except for the worst terrorist attack in US history.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 07/08/2026
I get that it's hard for younger folks to grasp how immediately, completely insane 9/11 made this country, so I'll just point out that George Bush, a widely despised clown, pulled 90% approval for doing absolutely nothing- liberals would attack you for suggesting he was less than infallible
wiki entry noting George W Bush's record 90% approval rating following 9/11
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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
MLK: “the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
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Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left
One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.
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Simon Jessey @scjessey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Seriously, Fauci should come out of retirement to make a virus targeting just Republicans.
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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Having controlled for all other variables we finally can quantify how many Republicans are racist: 66%. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
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Trump-Backed Michigan Candidate Loses Primary to Rival Who Suspended His Campaign
Without running a single ad or filing a campaign finance report, Tom Smith, who had suspended his bid, soundly defeated Amir Hassan, a Navy veteran backed by President Trump.
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Rod Green @thetheredundant.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
One thing you begin to notice about the Democratic Party over time is that they don’t really like their voters. They will take our money and our votes and that’s about it.
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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
August 4, 2026 is the day when Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set. It's about a fully-automated house after a nuclear war. We don't have automated houses yet but thanks to constant war we're closer than we've been in a long time to the risk of nuclear escalation. So that's fun.
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Exploded Bunbury @explodedbunbury.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The burden is always on us lefties to welcome them, debate them, compromise with them, find middle ground, and generally make them comfortable. It’s totally one directional. No one is calling for Truth Social to make any room for us.
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